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4,400+ Internet-Exposed Rockwell PLCs Expose Water Systems to Cyberattacks
A wave of cyberattacks against U.S. water and wastewater utilities has renewed alarm over how many industrial controllers remain directly reachable from the public internet. New research from Forescout has identified 4,407 internet-facing Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers (PLCs) exposing port 44818, the EtherNet/IP engineering protocol, with 65% located in the United States, followed by […] The post 4,400+ Internet-Exposed Rockwell PLCs Expose Water Systems to Cyberattacks appeared first on Cyber Security News.
A wave of cyberattacks against U.S. water and wastewater utilities has renewed alarm over how many industrial controllers remain directly reachable from the public internet. New research from Forescout has identified 4,407 internet-facing Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers (PLCs) exposing port 44818, the EtherNet/IP engineering protocol, with 65% located in the United States, followed…
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